BIAAS Austro-Americana Blog Series
Former BIAAS grant recipient, Megan Brandow-Faller, writes a 3-part blog series for BIAAS, in anticipation of her forthcoming monograph The Female Secession: Art and Decorative at the Viennese Women’s Academy (Penn State University Press, 2020).
Part I: Interwar Vienna’s ‘Female Secession’: From Vienna to New York and Los Angeles
In Secessionist and interwar Vienna, female artists trained at the Viennese Women’s Academy created self-consciously ‘feminine’ art incorporating traditional forms of women’s handcrafts (including ceramics, textiles and embroidery) but in new and subversive ways.
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Part II: Interwar Vienna’s ‘Female Secession’: From Vienna to New York and Los Angeles
Artists like Vally Wieselthier, Emmy Zweybrück-Prochaska, or Maria Likarz-Strauss, who created decorative art and handcraft that was formally and thematically provocative, clashed with the regime’s attempts to resurrect the hierarchy of the arts and retain biologically defined gender roles.
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Part III: Interwar Vienna’s ‘Female Secession’: From Vienna to New York and Los AngelesEmmy Zweybrück-Prochaska and Liane Zimbler, who both played leading roles in Wiener Frauenkunst (WFK) Raumkunst exhibitions also left Austria for New York and Los Angeles. Like the exiled ceramicists, Zweybrück-Prochaska’s reputation as a pedagogue, designer, and craftswoman preceded her forced emigration.
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